Toggle Mobile

[inquisitor]

Here comes some more experience with toggle:

Although local numbers may expire the related local IMSIs seem to remain active forever. So despite you may have lost your local number, your toggle SIM will still use the local IMSI to register on the local network and you will be charged "local rates" even if your local number has expired long time ago. So there is no need to re-activate a local number if you don't need a local number but only seek the lower local rates.

Although the tiny state of Liechtenstein has its own cellular networks (MCC 295) and despite toggle lists quite expensive rates for Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein is being treated as Switzerland by toggle.
On the one hand that means if you have a Swiss IMSI you will get the cheap local rates also in Liechtenstein. On the other hand, however, you cannot roam using the "Roaming" IMSI anymore but you must use the Swiss IMSI which can only register on "swisscom FL" (295-01) (once you have a Swiss IMSI registration through the Roaming IMSI is rejected by all Liechtenstein networks (FL1, Orange FL, swisscom FL)).
This is very likely a side effect of the fact that swisscom offers free roaming between Liechtenstein and Swisscom for their customers from both countries. By the way the Swiss swisscom network, which is Lycamobile Switzerland's physical home network, uses 228-01 as MCC/MNC-tuple, so Liechtenstein and Switzerland have at least different virtual Radio Access Networks (which however probably both use the same core network).

Toggle's text messages are still full of grammatical and typographical errors. The SMS providing written APN settings as well as their website still say "Swiss" instead of "Switzerland" while the earlier SMS clarifying call rates gives the correct country name just to be followed by a double flaw: "Welcome to Switzerland. Its costs £0.28/min....".
By the way, why doesn't toggle send those APN settings as OTA SMS so the phone can take these settings automatically after user approval? It's pretty stupid to send APN settings as plain human-readable SMS when there's a so much more convenient way.

Toggle's STK application does not work at all on a Nokia Asha 210 DualSIM. My phone did neither register automatically on any Austrian network for 30 minutes nor did it on any network available in Liechtenstein (which includes all the Swiss networks beaming from the surrounding mountains) although it was in automatic IMSI selection mode (set in the STK menu) as well as in automatic network selection mode (set in the phone settings).